Cui Hong said goodbye to his father Cui Cheng and returned to his own courtyard.

"Childe!"

In the courtyard, a scribe in his thirties had been waiting for a long time.

Cui Hong respectfully shouted: "Mr. Yan! ”

Mr. Yan nodded and said, "What, or don't you plan to tell the secretary and supervisor?" ”

The secretary and supervisor is Cui Cheng's official position.

Cui Hong shook his head and said, "Everything is as you expected, my father is as serious as ever." Before I could speak, he didn't allow me to communicate with Lu Qi. Judging by his attitude, he would not allow us to take any chances. Tell him that it will only be bad, and he doesn't say it. ”

Mr. Yan said: "No one wants to take risks, but the current situation is not under our control. It's not wrong for the secretary to be so cautious, it's just that we can't wait. ”

Cui Hong's face was slightly embarrassed, but it was quickly replaced by conceit, and said: "Think about how brilliant my Cui family is, even an emperor like Sui Wen and Tang Sect is based on appeasement. Nowadays, dragons swim in the shallows and suffer from fish and shrimp frolicking. Now that there is a great opportunity in front of us, if you are afraid to do something, how can you achieve great things? I don't believe that Pei Min can walk the luck of a lifetime! ”

His tone was full of unwillingness, and pride in his own lineage.

As the Cui family ranked first among the five surnames and seven hopes, Cui Hongruo was born in the Taizong and Gaozong periods, and he did have the capital to be proud.

It's a pity that Cui Hong was born in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty after Wu Zetian.

The clan originated in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when Dong Zhongshu proposed to "depose the hundred schools and advocate Confucianism".

The scholars who studied Confucian classics in that era monopolized the essence of the classic doctrine of Confucius and Mencius, and passed it on from generation to generation within the family, and then grasped the discourse power of the entire national cultural system.

It is completely opposite to the teachings of Confucius, the true ancestor of Confucianism.

It is not groundless for some people to say that Confucianism has imprisoned Chinese culture. It's just that the fact is not the fault of Confucianism, but a series of things done by those people who violated the core ideas of Confucius, so that Confucius, the ancestor, inexplicably carried the black cauldron.

Confucius was the first pioneer and the most holy teacher to pass on culture to the world and popularize knowledge to the poor people.

His apprentices more than ten generations later violated this, but the black cauldron was carried by Confucius.

To put it mildly, if Confucius hadn't become a cup of loess, his coffin lid would have been unable to be suppressed.

After hundreds of years of development, the Confucian scholar family, through marriage, alliance with each other, accumulated prestige, and with a monopoly on knowledge, formed a powerful family group.

The Yuan family, which was at the top of the world during the Three Kingdoms period, is the representative, how brilliant the fourth and third princes are.

Putting aside "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in terms of official history, in the early days of the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shao in the north and Yuan Shu in the south were the two strongest forces in the late Han Dynasty, one south and one north respectively coerced a group of princes.

Don't look at Yuan Shu's incompetence in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in fact, at the beginning, Yuan Shu's strength was stronger than Yuan Shao, because he was the sister-in-law of the Yuan family, and his political resources were richer than that of Yuan Shao, the eldest son of the concubine. Jiangdong Tiger Sun Jian is an existence attached to Yuan Shu.

Fortunately, the two Yuan didn't obey anyone, and they fought in the same room, so that Cao Cao, who was attached to Yuan Shao's wings, grew stronger little by little.

In the end, Cao Cao bucked the trend with his great talent, defeated Er Yuan, and became the overlord of the world.

To put it mildly, if Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are not enemies of each other, they work together to revitalize the Yuan family.

Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce and Sun Quan, even if these people have the ability to pass through the heavens and latitudes, they have to drink the northwest wind, and they have nothing to do with them at all.

In order to appease the clan, Chen Qun of Cao Wei proposed the Jiupin Zhongzheng system.

From this time on, the children of the scholar clan were born with the privilege of being officials. The higher the official position of the nobleman, the higher the family rank, and the higher the official position that his children can hold. Even the descendants of later generations, even if they are idiots and mentally retarded, are destined to get good fat shortages. And people from humble backgrounds, even if they have talent, they are reprimanded by officialdom, and they can only sink into subordinates for life.

There is no cold door in the upper grade, and there is no family in the lower grade, and it also starts from this.

The true rise of the people of the world also originated here.

In the next four or five hundred years of turmoil between the two Jin and Wuhu dynasties, even if the Central Plains was bullied by the Wuhu aliens, the various Hu and Han dynasties changed like a marquee.

Everyone in the family thrived, maintained glory and wealth from generation to generation, often had meritorious celebrities, and always occupied the highest political position in the empire, and even controlled the imperial power.

Of course, these families are not without real heroes and heroes.

Xie An, who protected the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie Xuan, who founded the Beifu Army, Zu Di, who led the Northern Expedition, etc., are all first-class heroes and heroes in the world.

But this does not hide the disadvantages brought about by the monopoly of the world.

For this kind of drawback, the emperors of all dynasties have clearly understood it, and they have been trying their best to deal with this problem, but the effect is not obvious.

Especially Emperor Taizong Li Shimin, he exhausted all his means for the clan, while promoting and reusing a large number of Kwantung Han scholars such as Wei Zheng and Ma Zhou, so that they could enter as central ministers and check and balance with the Gaomen clan, while revising the "Clan Chronicles", and ordered to change the official position to set the high and low, divided into nine ranks. Re-determine the gate valve of the Shi clan, so as to belittle Cui Lu, Wang Xie and other old clans with the surname of Shandong and Qiao, and elevate the Guan Sergeant clan on which the Guanlong group depends. It also raised the ranks of many meritorious heroes of the Tang Dynasty and ministers of the Han Dynasty to the ranks of the Jinshi clan. even married a group of his children through marriage, and formed a strategic alliance after marrying meritorious deeds.

That is to say, with the Li Tang royal family and the Guanlongmen valve as the core, and at the same time including the meritorious heroes of the Jiantang Dynasty, the northern and southern scholars, and the Han scholars from all over the country, a new group of scholars was established with a new official rank to replace the old scholars of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, which had been multiplied for more than 300 years.

This large-scale effort also shows that Li Shimin does have extraordinary talent and has achieved great results.

But it still doesn't change the big picture.

At this time, a person appeared, Wu Zetian.

In order to consolidate his position, Wu Zetian adopted iron-blooded methods.

Facts have also proved that the best political means is to kill!

Li Shimin's dedication for half of his life, the results are not as good as Wu Zetian's words.

The first female emperor in Chinese history paved the way with corpses and bones, was determined to innovate, and severely dealt a blow to the Yishi clan gate lords and the Guanlong meritorious group at the same time, and promoted a large number of poor officials to enter the officialdom, occupy high positions, and participate in political affairs.

Although Wu Zetian's military was a mess during his reign, her achievements in suppressing the world clan are beyond doubt.

The Cui family, as the first family in the past, was also the most traumatized, and it was no longer what it used to be.

The dominance has been greatly weakened, and Shilin is no longer blindly based on the gate valve.

Looking at the court, there are already more poor families than the scholars, especially the choice of the prime minister, and they have no relationship with the scholars.

But although the Cui family is in decline, they still have pride and conceit, and they are still proud to be a member of the family with five surnames.

Reproducing the glory of the past is a matter of the children of the Cui family who have given their lives since childhood.

Cui Hong also brainwashed the elders of the family since he was a child, telling them about the past glory of the family, asking them to be proud, so as to inspire them to push the Cui family to the top again.

Not only Cui Hong, but also Cui Xiang and Cui Cheng back then.

What really does the world not tolerate the kings of the past is that they put their family before the country, and their own family comes first, and then the state.

For the sake of the family, the interests of the people of the world are disregarded.

Cui Xiang and Cui Cheng bet their weights on Princess Taiping, and the other bet on Li Longji.

According to the overall situation, the Cui family supports Princess Taiping.

Because Cui Xiang is the man of Princess Taiping, although Princess Taiping has many men, Cui Xiang is the most favored one among them, and he is also the prime minister of the country.

Once Princess Taiping succeeds, Cui Xiang's status goes without saying.

The Cui family will also get the greatest benefits from this and move towards the road of rejuvenation.

It's just a congenital coup d'état, the five kings came out together, and with the assistance of Guo Yuanzhen, Pei Min and others, Princess Taiping lost completely when she had the advantage.

Even if the Cui family has Cui Cheng and preserved the family business, it will inevitably lose a lot.

This is also the reason why Cui Hong said that Pei Min was lucky.

Cui Cheng took over Qinglong from Cui Xiang.

But Qinglong is not only the internal guard of the past, but also Princess Taiping's own henchmen. They were loyal to Taiping and opposed Li Longji.

Cui Cheng divided one into two, and used those who were willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty to serve Li Longji, and controlled the tokens obtained by those who were loyal to Princess Taiping through Cui Xiang to serve the Cui family and the family.

Cui Cheng handed over this power in the shadows to his son Cui Hong.

Cui Cheng is frivolous on the outside, but calm and serious on the inside. He is now the only big man in the Cui family who has a status in the court, and he also holds a sharp weapon like the green dragon, and his status in the Cui family is extremely high.

Cui Hong initially followed his father's footsteps.

It's just that he is young and conceited, there is no one in his eyes, he walks a little depressed and aggrieved, and he obviously has great power, but he wants to pretend to be a grandson.

Until he met Mr. Yan and Lu Qi.

Cui Hong, like a like-minded confidant, began to deviate from Cui Cheng's layout.

Becoming radical, full of expansion, and even starting to recruit troops, it also provoked today's crisis.

If he could start from scratch, Cui Hong would definitely choose not to embarrass Zhanpeng at this moment.

But in the world, there is no regret medicine to take, and Cui Hong is conceited and arrogant and does not admit his mistakes.

He believes that he will win in the end!

Because he is Cui Hong!

He is the most famous descendant of the Cui family among the five surname families.

"Does Mr. Yan have any ideas for Zhanpeng? Lu Qi's opinion was to kill him, use a thousand knives to deal with him, and punish him to death, venting the hatred in his heart. Cui Hong consulted Mr. Yan's opinion.

Mr. Yan said: "It's no wonder that Lu Qi has this attitude, this person has a vicious mind, although he is the number one person, he will become a big weapon, but he can't last long." ”

He pointed to his chest and said, "Too small-minded! Because of Zhanpeng, he brought out the Gongsun sisters and pulled Pei Min, so that his original plan was changed again and again, and it was not controlled. Naturally, he wanted to kill him to vent his anger......"

"But we're different. The matter has come to this point, killing Zhanpeng is useless. If we win, Pei Min, the Qingyu League, and even our enemies will all die, and Zhanpeng's son, daughter, apprentice, and others will also lose their protection. As long as we control one of them, we are not afraid that Zhanpeng will not work for us. It's good for us to keep him. In case, if it fails, it's not too late to kill him again. ”

Cui Hong looked at Mr. Yan with certainty and said, "We won't fail, they are in the light, and we are in the dark." This time, we pointed directly at His Majesty's death hole against the scales, even an emperor like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when he touched his scales, he would lose his rationality, and he was so ruthless that he almost killed himself. Today's saint may not be comparable to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. ”

Mr. Yan also nodded and said, "Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." ”

Cui Hong naturally knew what Dongfeng was, and frowned: "It's just that the enlightened monk is extremely hidden, and it is difficult to find it for a while." I think it's better to send someone to contact Wu Jieyu, if Mingwu is the person she arranged, I believe she must know the whereabouts of the thief monk. ”

"Yes!" Mr. Yan agreed: "Since we want to make contact, we simply reach a strategic alliance. Let him blow the pillow wind to His Majesty, and we will help her achieve her wish, and she will help us obtain a high position. Our majesty, the roots of the ears are the softest. ”

After a pause, he said again: "We can also give Pei Min eye medicine and tell Wu Jieyu that she has fallen to this point today because Pei Min helped the queen." If Wu Jieyu is really a member of the Wu family, she will help us stab Pei Min fiercely. Make our programs work better. ”

Cui Hong was greatly moved, walked around excitedly, and said with his hands together: "This method is feasible, Princess Taiping did not put eyeliner in the palace at the beginning." Most of them have been cleaned, and some of them are deeply hidden, and they can still be used by us. I'm going to let someone go and hook up with Wu Jieyu......"

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Bidding farewell to the Gongsun sisters, Pei Min returned to Pei's mansion.

Thinking about the current situation, Pei Min had no intention of sleeping for a while.

Drawing up the opponent is just the beginning.

How to play with it, what means the other party will use, these need to start planning again.

It's a bit big to think about, but I still don't have a clue.

"Alas! It's a pity that Li Linfu is too unreliable......"

Thinking of the most headache place, Pei Min suddenly thought of Li Linfu.

This is the first traitor of the Tang Dynasty, and he has a different kind of talent in this aspect.

He is particularly sensitive to political conspiracy, and if he is reliable and consults with him, he will definitely be able to help himself in this matter.

Thinking of this, Pei Min shook his head and dispelled this thought: he could see that Li Linfu was the kind of greedy person who ate in the bowl and looked at the pot.

He will never be satisfied with the power in his hands, and at any time, no position will satisfy his appetite.

At the first opportunity, he will start to climb up like a cat that smells fishy.

As long as it is profitable, Pei Min believes that no matter how good he is to Li Linfu, this bastard will betray him without scruples.

You can use Him, but you must never trust Him.

It's just that in addition to Li Linfu, most of the talents under his command are loyal and righteous, and few of them are good at the intrigues and tricks in the political field.

Worse than him, how can you expect them to give you advice?

"It seems that I still have less talents in this area."

Pei Min muttered a few words, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration, he thought of a person, and laughed: "How can you forget her old man, her old man is a character who has gone through strong winds and waves and has been mixed around Wu Zetian, why don't you ask her for advice!" ”